Beside a road/11.0 mi away/256 ft/105 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Urbana until 1 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Urbana is 65° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 69): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 90°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Urbana, Arkansas.
Air quality
Index 69, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Monroe (LA), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Urbana, ArkansasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Urbana, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/256 ft/105 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Locust Ridge RAWSLRRA4
A remote fire weather station/14.8 mi away/108 ft/43 ft below here
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At an airfield/21.6 mi away/253 ft/102 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ouachita River 7 SE Thatcher L&DCALA4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/95 ft/56 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
El Dorado 2.0 ESEAR-UN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/255 ft/104 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.6 mi from Urbana, Arkansas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of El Dorado/Goodwin, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Ouachita River 7 SE Thatcher L&D (CALA4), 10.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.